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Medicine Through time key dates and names Flashcards

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Hippocrates main theory

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The Four Humours

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Galen

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Theory of Opposites, anatomical works

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Black Death in Britain

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1348

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Andreas Vesalius

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“On the Fabric of the Human body” wrote in 1543

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Ambroise Pare

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“Notes on Surgery” - became king’s surgeon

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William Harvey

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“an anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood” in 1628

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Royal Society

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1660

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Thomas Sydenham

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Renaissance Doctor in London. “obervationes medicae” in 1676

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The Great Plague

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1665

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The Great Fire of London

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1665

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Brought inoculation to England

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Edward Jenner

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Vaccination - Vaccinates ‘James Phipps’ in 1796

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J.R Liston

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‘Ether’ in 1846

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Florence Nightingale

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‘Notes on Nursing’ in 1859

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Crimean War

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1853-1856

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Mary Seacole

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Gave aid to British soldiers in the Crimean War

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John Snow

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1854

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Germ Theory

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1861

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ Theory in 1861

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Robert Koch

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Anthrax Vaccine 1881

He identified the bacteria which caused anthrax (1875), TB (1882) and cholera (1883)

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Sir Humphrey Davy

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Uses ‘Laughing Gas’ (Nitrous Oxide) in 1844

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Joseph Lister

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Carbolic acid in 1865

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James Simpson

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‘Chloroform’ in 1847

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Queen Victoria

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Used Chloroform to birth her Eighth child in 1853

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1858

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Great Stink

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Edwin Chadwick

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‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring population’ in 1842

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1848

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Public Health Act

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1867

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Second Reform Act

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1875

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Second Public Health Act

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W.C Rontgen

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X-rays discovered in Dec 1895

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Alexander Fleming

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Penicillin discovered in 1928

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Florey and Chain asking British Gov. for funding

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1939

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US Gov. give Florey and Chain funding

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1941

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Sir William Beveridge

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Beveridge Report in 1942

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NHS

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1948

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1945 Nobel Prize

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Fleming, Florey and Chain

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First Battle of Ypres

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Oct-Nov 1914

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Hill 60

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April-May 1915

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Second Battle of Ypres

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April-May 1915

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Battle of the Somme

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July-Nov 1916

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Battle of Arras

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April-May 1917

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Third Battle of Ypres

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July-Nov 1917

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Battle of Cambrai

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Nov-Dec 1917

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